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- noun Plural form of
lum .
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Examples
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Interesting that she'd pass up on a more "cultured" event like the one at the Ronald Reagan Library to hang out with the Hood-lums of the NRA.
Palin gives 'stirring' gun rights speech at NRA dinner, says group 2009
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It is a fact that the curricula/lums/ lae for almost all urban planning schools and traffic engineers etc spend virtually no time on pedestrian or cycle issues.
Walking Ottawa « XUP 2008
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"Grass," said I; "look at yon," and I pointed to the parks and the steading, with the smoke rising straight from the lums into the frosty morning air.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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"I ken what that man's doin 'up there," he asserted; "he's sweepin 'the lums for Santa Claus to get doon."
Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford
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"_Rei glorios, verais lums e clardatz --" Amphitryon had begun.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918
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Sang Perion, "_Rei glorios, verais lums e clardatz -- _" or, in other wording:
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918
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None of these cheap fil-lums where a comic dog runs in and upsets the tea-table, just as the parson is about to say grace, but the world's greatest artists brought within the reach of all who command the homely nickel.
Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906
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I wonder what they can see in't – a muckle dirty place, with long lums pouring out smoke.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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Side by side with the penguins, which steal one another's eggs, you have the dotterels, whose family relations are so "charming and touching" that even passionate hunters recoil from shooting a female surrounded by her young ones; or the eider-ducks, among which (like the velvet-ducks, or the coroyas of the Savannahs) several females hatch together in the same, nest. or the lums, which sit in turn upon a common covey.
Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881
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To this have been fincc added many other intirc duties, eranicd in lubfcquent years; and the annual intercft ofthe lums borrowed on their refpcftive tredits, is charged on, and payable out of the produce of the finking fund.
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